இஸ்லாமிய சமூகங்களில் இன்னுமா அடிமை முறை இருக்கிறது?

இவர்கள்தான் இந்துக்கள், இந்தியாவை எல்லாம் நாள் தவறாமல் மேடை போட்டுத் தமிழ் நாட்டில் ஏசிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் . தீண்டாமையை தாம்தான் ஒழிக்கப் போவதாக மார் தட்டும் இந்தப் புரட்டல் முஸ்லிம் அரசியல்வாதிகளுக்கு உலகில் பல இஸ்லாமிய நாடுகளிலும் இன்னும் அடிமை முறை இருப்பது தெரியாது போலிருக்கிறது. அவர்கள் தம் மூக்கைத் தாண்டி எதையும் பார்ப்பதில்லை, பாலஸ்தீனம்,காஷ்மீரம் இரண்டும் மட்டும் தினம் காலை ஒரு முறை கோசம் போட உதவும். என்ன சன்மங்களோ!
ராபர்ட் ஸ்பென்சரோ கிருஸ்தவர்களை மட்டும் அடிமைகளை வைத்திருந்தீர்கள் என்று திட்டுகிறீர்களே, ரோசம் இருந்தா அவங்கிளியும் போய்த் திட்டுங்கடா பாப்பம்னு ஒரு சவால் விட்றாரு. ஏய்யா, சும்மா இருந்தாலியே தலையை வெட்டுறன்னு சொல்றாங்கன்னு ஜெயமோகனே சொல்றாரு. எந்தலை எங்கிட்டியே இருக்கணும்னு நா பாட்டில் போய்க்கிட்டே இருக்கிறன். என்னை வந்து இந்த வம்புல மாட்டி விடுறியே என்ன் கொழுப்பான்னு அவரைக் கேட்கலாம்னா அவரு எங்கெ இருக்காருன்னுட்டுத் தெரியல்லியெ.
கீழே அந்த ஆளு எழுதினதில் இஸ்லாம் பத்தி எழுதினத மட்டும்தான் எடுத்து வுட்டேன். இவரு சொல்றதெல்லாம் நெசமாவா இருக்குங்கிறீங்க?

ஆனாக்க அவர் என்ன சொல்றாருன்னு பார்த்தா, இஸ்லாமில முஸ்லிம் அல்லாதவர்களெல்லாம் படைக்கப்பட்டதிலியே மோசமானவங்கன்னு சொல்லி இருக்கு, அதுனாலதான் அனேக அடிமைகளும் ஜிஹாத் போரில் பிடிபட்டவங்களா இருக்காங்கன்னு சொல்றாரு. அதுல பாருங்க இந்துக்களும் அடிமைகளா இருந்திருக்காங்கன்னுட்டு சொல்றாரு.
முஸ்லிம் அல்லாதவங்களை இப்பிடி அடிமையாப் பிடிச்சு வித்துக் காசு பண்ணாங்களே அந்த எண்ணிக்கை எத்தினி? 17 மிலியன் பேர் இருக்கும்னுட்டு சொல்றாரு. அதாவது கிட்டத்தட்ட ஒரு கோடியே 70 லட்சம் பேரை அடிமையாப் பிடிச்சு வித்தாங்களாம். என்ன ஒரு அருமையான ஆட்கள் இவங்க? இன்னிக்கு இந்தியாவில் இருக்கிற எல்லாரையும் விடுதலை செய்யப் போறாங்களாமில்லே?
இவிங்களெ நம்பலாமா?
இதிலெ பாருங்க இன்னிக்கும் பல முஸ்லிம் நாடுங்கள்ளெ அடிமை முறை இருக்குன்னிட்டு இவரு சொல்றாரு. நாம என்ன போய்ப் பாக்கப் போறோமா? இருந்தாலும் புகை இருக்கு, நெருப்பு இருக்குமான்னிட்டு யோசிங்க.
அவரு சொல்ற நாடுகள்லெ சவுதியிலே அடிமை முறையை சட்டத்தில் ஒழிச்சது 1960இல. யேமன், ஓமான் நாடுகள்லெ 1970லதான் அடிமை முறைய ஒழிச்சாங்களாம். நைஜர்ங்கிற நாட்டில் 2004 இலதான் ஒழிச்சாங்களாம். மாரிடானியாங்கற நாட்டில் இன்னும் இருக்காமில்ல. சூடான்ல இன்னும் அடிமைகளைப் பிடிக்கறத்துக்குப் போர் நடத்துற வழக்கம் அரபி முஸ்லிம்கள் கிட்ட இருக்குன்னுட்டு சொல்றாரு. 2007 இல கூட இப்பிடி சிறை வைச்சு அடிமையாக்கி இருக்காங்களாம்.
இதில பாருங்க சவுதிக்காரங்க ஏதோ தாங்கதான் இஸ்லாத்தோட கார்டியனுன்னிட்டு தெனம் சவுண்டு வுடறாங்க. சூடான் காரங்களோ தங்களுக்குத்தான் இஸ்லாம்ங்கிறத்துல எது நெசமான இஸ்லாம்னு தெரியும்னுட்டு தெனம் தப்பு அடிக்கிறாங்க.
மக்கா, ஏம்லெ இப்பிடி ஊரை எத்துறீங்கன்னுட்டு ஒரு சவுண்டு வுடலாம்னு வருது. ஆனா, நமக்கெதுக்கு வம்பு. இத்தினி பெருந்தலை எல்லாம் இவுங்க உட்ற கதை எல்லாம் நம்பிக்கிட்டுப் போய் கஞ்சி குட்சி, குல்லால்லாம் போட்டு சலாம் போட்டுட்டு வர்றாங்க. நாம என்ன ஏதோ ஓரமாக் கெடக்கோம். நமக்கெதுக்கு வம்பு, இல்லெ?

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Slavery, Christianity, and Islam

By Robert Spencer
Monday, February 4, 2008, 7:45 AM
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Islamic Slavery

In the Islamic world, however, the situation is very different. The Muslim prophet Muhammad owned slaves, and like the Bible, the Qur’an takes the existence of slavery for granted, even as it enjoins the freeing of slaves under certain circumstances, such as the breaking of an oath: “Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom” (5:89). Jihad theorist Sayyid Qutb adduces this as evidence that in Islam “there is no difference between a prince and a pauper, a seigneur and a slave.” Nevertheless, while the freeing of a slave or two here and there is encouraged, the institution itself is never questioned. The Qur’an even gives a man permission to have sexual relations with his slave girls as well as with his wives: “The believers must (eventually) win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess, for (in their case) they are free from blame” (23:1-6). A Muslim is not to have sexual relations with a woman who is married to someone else—except a slave girl: “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you” (4:24).

Why should such passages be any more troubling to anyone than passages in the Bible such as Exodus 21:7–11, which gives regulations for selling one’s daughter as a slave? Because in Islam there is no equivalent of the Golden Rule, as articulated by Jesus: “So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets” (Matt. 7:12). The closest Islamic tradition comes to this is one hadith in which Muhammad says, “None of you will have faith till he likes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself.” The parenthetical “Muslim” in that sentence was added by the Saudi translator, and does not appear in the original Arabic; however, “brother” is generally not used in Islamic tradition to refer to anyone but fellow Muslims. Also mitigating against a universal interpretation of this maxim is the sharp distinction between believers and unbelievers that runs through all of Islam. The Qur’an says that the followers of Muhammad are “ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” (48:29), and that the unbelievers are the “worst of created beings” (98:6). One may exercise the Golden Rule in relation to a fellow Muslim, but according to the worldview presented by such verses and others like them, the same courtesy is not properly to be extended to unbelievers.

That is one principal reason why the primary source of slaves in the Islamic world has been non-Muslims, whether Jews, Christians, Hindus or pagans. Most slaves in Islam were non-Muslims who had been captured during jihad warfare. The pioneering scholar of the treatment of non-Muslims in Islamic societies, Bat Ye’or, explains the system that developed out of jihad conquest:

The jihad slave system included contingents of both sexes delivered annually in conformity with the treaties of submission by sovereigns who were tributaries of the caliph. When Amr conquered Tripoli (Libya) in 643, he forced the Jewish and Christian Berbers to give their wives and children as slaves to the Arab army as part of their jizya [tax on non-Muslims]. From 652 until its conquest in 1276, Nubia was forced to send an annual contingent of slaves to Cairo. Treaties concluded with the towns of Transoxiana, Sijistan, Armenia, and Fezzan (Maghreb) under the Umayyads and Abbasids stipulated an annual dispatch of slaves from both sexes. However, the main sources for the supply of slaves remained the regular raids on villages within the dar-al-harb [House of War, i.e., non-Islamic regions] and the military expeditions which swept more deeply into the infidel lands, emptying towns and provinces of their inhabitants.

Historian Speros Vryonis observes that “since the beginning of the Arab razzias [raids] into the land of Rum [the Byzantine Empire], human booty had come to constitute a very important portion of the spoils.” The Turks, as they steadily conquered more and more of Anatolia, reduced many of the Greeks and other non-Muslims there to slave status: “They enslaved men, women, and children from all major urban centers and from the countryside where the populations were defenseless.” The Indian historian K. S. Lal states that wherever jihadists conquered a territory, “there developed a system of slavery peculiar to the clime, terrain and populace of the place.” When Muslim armies invaded India, “its people began to be enslaved in droves to be sold in foreign lands or employed in various capacities on menial and not-so-menial jobs within the country.”

Slaves faced pressure to convert to Islam. Patricia Crone, in an analysis of Islamic political theories, notes that after a jihad battle was concluded, “male captives might be killed or enslaved…Dispersed in Muslim households, slaves almost always converted, encouraged or pressurized by their masters, driven by a need to bond with others, or slowly, becoming accustomed to seeing things through Muslim eyes even if they tried to resist.” Thomas Pellow, an Englishman who was enslaved in Morocco for twenty-three years after being captured as a cabin boy on a small English vessel in 1716, was tortured until he accepted Islam. For weeks he was beaten and starved, and finally gave in after his torturer resorted to “burning my flesh off my bones by fire, which the tyrant did, by frequent repetitions, after a most cruel manner.”

Slavery was taken for granted throughout Islamic history, as it was, of course, in the West as well up until relatively recent times. Yet while the European and American slave trade get lavish attention from historians (as well as from mau-mauing reparations advocates and their marks, guilt-ridden contemporary politicians), the Islamic slave trade actually lasted longer and brought suffering to a larger number of people. It is exceedingly ironic that Islam has been presented to American blacks as the egalitarian alternative to the “white man’s slave religion” of Christianity, since Islamic slavery operated on a larger scale than did the Western slave trade, and lasted longer. While historians estimate that the transatlantic slave trade, which operated between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, involved around 10.5 million people, the Islamic slave trade in the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean areas began in the seventh century and lasted into the nineteenth, and involved 17 million people.

Also, the pressure to end it moved from Christendom into Islam, not the other way around. There was no Muslim Clarkson, Wilberforce, or Garrison. In fact, when the British government in the nineteenth century adopted the view of Wilberforce and the other abolitionists as its own and thereupon began to put pressure on pro-slavery regimes, the Sultan of Morocco was incredulous precisely because of the audacity of the innovation that the British were proposing: “The traffic in slaves,” he noted, “is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam . . . up to this day.” He said that he was “not aware of its being prohibited by the laws of any sect” and that the very idea that anyone would question its morality was absurd: “no one need ask this question, the same being manifest to both high and low and requires no more demonstration than the light of day.”

However, it was not the unanimity of human practice, but the plain words of the Qur’an and Muhammad that were decisive in stifling abolitionist movements within the Islamic world. Slavery was abolished under Western pressure; the Arab Muslim slave trade in Africa was ended by the force of British arms in the nineteenth century.

There is evidence that slavery still continues beneath the surface in some majority-Muslim countries as well—notably Saudi Arabia, which only abolished slavery in 1962, Yemen and Oman, both of which ended legal slavery in 1970, and Niger, which didn’t abolish slavery until 2004. In Niger, the ban is widely ignored, and as many as one million people remain in bondage. Slaves are bred, often raped, and generally treated like animals.

Some of the evidence that Islamic slavery still goes on consists of a spate of slavery cases involving Muslims in the United States. A Saudi named Homaidan Al-Turki was sentenced in September 2006 to 27 years to life in prison, for keeping a woman as a slave in his home in Colorado. For his part, Al-Turki claimed that he was a victim of anti-Muslim bias. He told the judge: “Your honor, I am not here to apologize, for I cannot apologize for things I did not do and for crimes I did not commit. The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.” The following month, an Egyptian couple living in Southern California received a fine and prison terms, to be followed by deportation, after pleading guilty to holding a ten-year-old girl as a slave. And in January 2007, an attaché of the Kuwaiti embassy in Washington and his wife were charged with keeping three Christian domestic workers from India in slave-like conditions in al-Saleh’s Virginia home. One of the women remarked: “I believed that I had no choice but to continue working for them even though they beat me and treated me worse than a slave.”

Slavery is still practiced openly today in two Muslim countries, Sudan and Mauritania. In line with historical practice, Muslim slavers in the Sudan primarily enslave non-Muslims, and chiefly Christians. According to the Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan (CASMAS), a human rights and abolitionist movement founded in 1995, “The current Khartoum government wants to bring the non-Muslim Black South in line with Sharia law, laid down and interpreted by conservative Muslim clergy. The Black animist and Christian South remembers many years of slave raids by Arabs from the north and east and resists Muslim religious rule and the perceived economic, cultural, and religious expansion behind it.”

One modern-day Sudanese Christian slave, James Pareng Alier, was kidnapped and enslaved when he was twelve years old. Religion was a major element of his ordeal: “I was forced to learn the Koran and re-baptised Ahmed. They told me that Christianity was a bad religion. After a time we were given military training and they told us we would be sent to fight.” Alier has no idea of his family’s whereabouts. The BBC reported in March 2007 that slave raids “were a common feature of Sudan’s 21-year north-south war, which ended in 2005. . . . According to a study by the Kenya-based Rift Valley Institute, some 11,000 young boys and girls were seized and taken across the internal border—many to the states of South Darfur and West Kordofan. . . . Most were forcibly converted to Islam, given Muslim names and told not to speak their mother tongue.” Yet even today, while non-Muslims were enslaved and often forcibly converted to Islam, their conversion does not lead to their freedom. Mauritanian anti-slavery campaigner Boubacar Messaoud explains that “it’s like having sheep or goats. If a woman is a slave, her descendants are slaves.”

Anti-slavery crusaders like Messaoud have great difficulty working against this attitude, because it is rooted in the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example. Particularly when the slaves are non-Muslims, there is no verse of the Qur’an corresponding to Lincoln’s favored Bible verse, Genesis 3:19, that anti-slavery Muslims can invoke against those who continue to approve of and even to practice slavery.

Most Westerners have not troubled to learn this history, and no one is telling them about it. If they did, the entire slavery guiltmongering industry would collapse. And we can’t let that happen, now, can we?

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad.

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Race and Slavery in the Middle East
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அமீரக ஷேக் ஹம்தன் பின் ரஷித் அல் மக்தூம் மீது குழந்தை அடிமைமுறை வழக்கு மீண்டும்

அமீரக ஷேக் ஹம்தன் பின் ரஷித் அல் மக்தூம் மீது குழந்தை அடிமைமுறை வழக்கு மீண்டும் போடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இவரது சந்தோசத்துக்காகவும், இதர அரபு , அமீரக ஷேக்குகள் சந்தோஷத்துக்காகவும் சிறு குழந்தைகளை ஒட்டகங்களின் முதுகில் கட்டி பாலைவனத்தில் ஓட்டப்பந்தயம் வைக்கிறார்கள்.

அந்த ஓட்டப்பந்தயத்தின் முடிவில் இந்த குழந்தைகள் நார் நாராக கிழிந்து போய்விடுகின்றன.

Child-slavery lawsuit refiled against sheikh in federal court
By Beth Musgrave
bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

A lawsuit alleging that a United Arab Emirates leader enslaved thousands of child jockeys to ride racing camels has been refiled in federal court in Kentucky, less than two months after a judge dismissed the case in Miami.

The lawsuit alleges that Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum and members of the Maktoum family were part of an extensive underground human-trafficking ring that brought children from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan and other African and South Asian countries and placed them in desert camps. Some of the children were as young as 2, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit alleges that some were injected with drugs to stop them from growing.

U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, a Miami federal judge, dismissed the previous lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds in late July, saying that although Maktoum had business interests in the United States, there was not a strong enough legal tie between Maktoum and his businesses.

Maktoum, the lawsuit says, has extensive property and interests in Kentucky, including Shadwell Farm and Darley Stud’s Jonabell Farm. Altonaga declined to transfer the case to Kentucky when the Florida case was dismissed.

Attorneys for the more than 10,000 boys involved in the class-action lawsuit could not be reached for comment.

Maktoum has said in court documents that UNICEF and the Emirates have created a program to reunite child jockeys with their families.

இங்கிலாந்தில் தொடரும் கருப்பினத்தவர் அடிமைமுறை

ஆப்பிரிக்க சிறுவர்களுக்கும் சிறுமிகளுக்கும் கல்வி தருகிறேன் என்றும் இதர வாக்குறுதிகளின் பேரில் இவர்களை கடத்திச் சென்று இங்கிலாந்தில் அடிமை வேலையாட்களாகவும் விபச்சாரத்துக்கும் பய்னபடுத்துகிறார்கள்.

இவர்களை ஏர்போர்ட் காபிக்கடைகளிலேயே வைத்து விலை பேசி விற்கிறார்கள் என்று பிபிஸி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்தி கூறுகிறது.

நன்றி ஆப்பிரிக்கா டுடே

The new form of slavery
08/31/07, Bunmi Akpata-Ohohe

Non-governmental organizations and human rights lawyers last month uncovered how hundreds of African children brought into the United Kingdom under bogus identities and tricked into leaving their families with the promise of an education, are being trafficked in the UK and forced to work as domestic slaves or prostitutes.

Behind closed and often protected doors, they work long hours for no cash, kept from the education promised them and beaten if they fail to do a satisfactory job. The NGOs and human rights bodies' findings reveal the alarming problem of what is described as "invisible children," illegally smuggled into the United Kingdom using false visas and documentations.

The findings suggest that hundreds of children are brought over from African countries, such as Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda, by highly organized traffickers. Nigeria is said to be the main source on the continent, where destitute families are either paid to give up their children or persuaded to give them away with a promise of education and a better future in the UK.

A BBC News website investigation into the slavery in the 21st Century England also reveals that young women, tricked into coming to the UK by their boyfriends, are being sold off in auctions at airport coffee shops as sex slaves, usually with no idea of their fate.

இந்தோனேஷிய அடிமைகளை கொன்ற அரபுக்குடும்பம்

இந்த யுகத்திலும் இன்னும் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின்னாலுள்ள மனத்தை வைத்துக்கொண்டு தன்னையும் மற்றவர்களையும் துயரத்தில் ஆழ்த்திக்கொண்டுவரும் இந்த குடும்பம் போன்று இன்னும் எத்தனை இருக்கின்றதோ!

ஒரு சவுதி அரேபியக்குடும்பம், தங்களிடம் வேலை பார்த்த இரண்டு இந்தோனேஷிய பெண்களை அடிமைகளாக நடத்தி அவர்கள் தவறு செய்தார்கள் என்று அடித்தே கொன்றுவிட்டனர்.

சவுதி அரசாங்கமும் இந்த இந்தோனேஷிய பெண்களுக்கு சார்பாக இல்லாமல், சவுதி அரபிய குடுமத்துக்கு சாதகமாகவே நடந்துகொள்கிறது என்று மனித உரிமைகள் கழகம் குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளது.

என்ன எழவு சமத்துவமோ!

Saudi family killed domestic workers says rights group
AFP
August 17, 2007

DUBAI -- A Saudi family beat to death two Indonesian women workers in an attack that Human Rights Watch said Friday highlighted the government's failure to deal with employers who seriously abuse domestic staff.

"The brutal killings of these Indonesian domestic workers occurred in an atmosphere of impunity, fostered by government inaction," said Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women's Rights Division of the New York-based rights group.

"Not only do the authorities typically fail to investigate or prosecute abusive employers, the criminal justice system also obstructs abused workers from seeking redress."

The group said seven members of the Saudi family carried out the beatings, earlier this month, which also resulted in two other women being critically injured. They are now in intensive care in Riyadh.

The family accused the four of practising "black magic" on a teenage son.

Although the authorities have detained these employers, the rights group said many of the 2 million domestic workers in the kingdom are routinely underpaid, overworked, confined to the workplace, or subject to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse.

And those who complain often face countercharges, such as theft, adultery, or fornication in cases of rape or witchcraft.

It cited interviews it had with Sri Lankan women who had been sentenced to prison and whipping after their employers had raped and made them pregnant.

In another case, Nour Miyati, an Indonesian domestic worker, was seriously injuried and lost her fingers through gangrene, after her employer locked her up, physically and verbally abused her, and deprived her of food.

She then faced a countercharge of making false accusations against him and was sentenced to 79 lashes. A court subsequently overturned that conviction and sentence, but she still awaits a final monetary settlement from her employer, and the ability to return home to Indonesia after her ordeal.

Human Rights Watch said the Saudi government often took months or years to tell foreign missions if their nationals had been arrested, preventing them from giving badly-needed help, such as interpreters.

Despite this, it said the Indonesian embassy alone currently has 300 women in its shelter, mainly domestic workers complaining of abuse by employers and recruitment agents. In July, the shelter housed 500 women.

மேற்குலகாலும், அரபியர்களாலும் தொடரும் ஆப்பிரிக்க அடிமைமுறை - ர்வாண்டாவிலிர்ந்து ஒரு குரல்

மேற்குலகாலும், அரபியர்களாலும் தொடரும் ஆப்பிரிக்க அடிமைமுறை - ர்வாண்டாவிலிர்ந்து ஒரு குரல்

துயரமும் கோபமும் உடைய இந்த குரல் கேட்கப்படவேண்டிய குரல்.

Rwanda: Africans Were And Still Are Forced Into Slavery
New Times (Kigali)
OPINION
16 August 2007
Posted to the web 16 August 2007

George Kagame
Kigali

"The Europeans and Arabs took the most talented, intelligent and creative generations of our African forefathers through slavery", Patrick Buhungu, my young brother, told me in 2003.

"When guilt overwhelmed the Europeans, they 'stopped' slave trade and reinvented it with colonialism. They made Africans slaves in their own countries by introducing cash crops and mineral exports, which they sold between themselves and got richer adding onto their incomes from slave trade."


Today slavery is replayed in the unfair trade relations that developed countries impose on poor developing countries.

Patrick at time was in the process of applying for a visa to Sweden, today he lives in Europe, and like so many Africans living there, he will not easily disclose what job he does.

Before his departure to Europe, Patrick called a farewell party; it is his partying words that left me in tears, not that I would miss him!

He said, "Europeans hunted our forefathers and took them as slaves, only the excellent ones were taken that is why France ever became soccer World Champions, and that is why Brazil is ever top of many games .like soccer. However, the Europeans left Africa with the least intelligent and talented of our own people."

Patrick was not done, he concluded, "even those of us left here, we are voluntarily taking ourselves into slavery in Europe."

When I read Richard Oundo's article about immigrant Africans arrested and sometime dumped on the Mediterranean Sea I was reminded of Patrick and the new form of slavery from Africa.

The Western world, which made a big business enslaving Africans forcefully, is now busy drowning them before they dock on Ocean islands. The same Europeans running around Africa, managing a myriad of NGOs to help Africa out of poverty. The Africans who are drowned in the oceans are complimenting these NGO's work.

Without the horrors of slavery, colonialism and neo colonialism, Europe took over 100 hundred years to stabilize and expand their industrial revolution after the Napoleonic wars.

They also took almost fifty years to consolidate after the Second World War even with assistance from the US Marshal Plan and the subsidies of exploiting resources from their African colonies.

As late as the 1970s, East Europeans were suffering the same fate Africans are facing on the Mediterranean Sea today, while chasing the American dream themselves.

It is the nature of the human selfish spirit that explains why Africans are painted the way they are while traversing the seas going to look for a descent saving in Europe. This story is very well portrayed in Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel.

This time, the Africans are portrayed .. (Like the grim pictures on the capsizing boats suggest) as a hopeless society unable to comprehend their problems leave alone solving them. Interestingly, the Africans believe such prejudices themselves!

Indeed, as Morgan Heritage sing in their inspirational song 'foreign races', "from the journey of slavery to colonialism we lost ourselves.'

To the Western eye, Africa has become a land of hopeless images-the starving child, the wild-eyed dictator, the dusty and dying veld or a wild epidemic.

This is some of what remains of the once mighty continent. This is what is fed to the Western audiences on daily basis. The same Europeans who advise us to stop playing apologetics of The Genocide, slavery and colonialism are the same people who will punish anti Semitism in their press or movies fifty years after the Holocaust!

Africa today is relayed to the rest of the world in a fashion which resembles an Anglo-Saxon tribal lore that tells the parable of the sparrow that flies into the dining hall at night, flutters about for a moment, and then wings out again. Its brief time in the light, and the darkness from which it comes and to which it goes, provides the allegory of a human life.

Samuel Doe of Liberia was videotaped having his ears cut off by the transition team of the incoming administration of Charles Taylor. The Genocide in Rwanda and murders in Somalia were, perhaps, not morally different from or worse than murders in Bosnia or Ulster but seemed somehow more primitive, carried out as they were with clubs and axes, or with bare hands and by dancing, gibbering crowds.

The illegal immigrant Africans crossing the Mediterranean sea are not different from the Mexicans trying to jump the high electric walls into US, but African images are stand out more, because they from the dark continent carrying along dangerous epidemics and many problems.

The crude images from Africa could as well be recognizable from Bosnia or El Salvador or Ukraine and Lebanon; the civilian and nontribal politician trying desperately to survive in a welter of mayhem and superstition. But the problems in those countries are not as scary as Africans because Africa is the Dark Continent!

The famines, plagues, and epidemics are, from old-style locusts to ultra-modern HIV/Aids, the most sweeping and devastating. The clan wars and wars of religion are the most bitter and pitiless. Human life is at its nastiest, most brutish, and shortest.

Statistics do their usual job of confirming initial impressions. Of the 20 most impoverished nations in the world, 18 are in Africa.

Richard Oundo of The New Times says the people crossing to European Countries are not illiterates; "They are educated people and sometimes from far developed countries by African standards, for example Tunisia, Morocco, and Ghana; they are not the Masaai or Karimojong warriors."

The latter are true African people who still refuse to embrace the glitter of the modern world up to today.

The mainstream international media describe Africa as being either a safari park or an elephants' graveyard; and that if you need a life you must go to Europe, US, Canada and so on. That is the reason Africans will do anything to get out of the jungle. It is the new form of slavery, slavery of the mind, which we must fight and win.

The writer is a social commentator, and also a journalist with The New Times.

நவீன அடிமைமுறை: 2 இந்தோனேஷிய அடிமைகள் சவுதி அரேபியாவில் அடித்துக்கொல்லப்பட்டார்கள்

அஃப்லாஜ் பகுதியில் எஜமானர் அடித்து துவைத்ததால் 2 இந்தோனேஷிய அடிமைகள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். மற்றவர்கள் தீவிர சிகிச்சை பிரிவில் இருக்கின்றனர்.

யார் இந்த எஜமானர் என்று போலீஸ் தகவல் தெரிவிக்க மறுத்துள்ளது.

இந்த அரபியர்கள் தங்கள் இனவெறி, ஜாதிவெறி மதவெறி நீங்கி அன்பு வழி இறைவழி வர இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்.

நன்றி அரபு நியூஸ்

2 Indonesian Maids Beaten to Death
Maha Akeel, Arab News

JEDDAH, 6 August 2007 — Two Indonesian maids were beaten to death and two others remain in the intensive care unit at a Riyadh hospital in an assault authorities believe was committed by the son of the maids’ employer. The 17-year-old suspect in the double-homicide and assault is reportedly being held in a mental hospital while police have detained his father.

The employer’s name was provided to Arab News by hospital staff, but is being withheld until it can be corroborated with authorities. The crime took place in the suburban community of Aflaj.

According to hospital staff, the police believe the suspect smashed the women against walls and beat them with an igal (the black headband used to hold down the shumag, the Bedouin headdress commonly worn by Saudi men) because he thought they were possessed by the devil and performing witchcraft on him.

Two of the women were pronounced dead on arrival at Aflaj General Hospital at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. The surviving assault victims were identified as Romini Shurti, 30, and Tari Bibitarfin, 27.

The survivors are conscious but are too sore to move, the nurse said, adding that it would take at least two weeks for them to recover. “We can’t find any normal skin on them,” a nurse at the hospital told Arab News. “It’s all red and blue and swollen.”

Speaking in broken Arabic, Bibitarfin told Arab News that the youth (one of nine siblings) attacked them one by one while they were working and was saying they “had the devil inside” and that they “did magic”. The large household is located in a suburban area.

Bibitarfin was unable to explain where the other members of the family were when the assault took place. She has been working at this household for about 18 months with no issues with the family members.

Police are investigating the crime. It is unclear who brought the maids to the hospital, though hospital staff reported that the bodies arrived first. The Indonesian Embassy did not wish to comment yesterday.

மௌரிட்டானியா:அடிமைமுறையை ஒழிக்க கொண்டுவந்த சட்டம் போதுமானதல்ல

மௌரிட்டானியாவின் புதிய ஜனாதிபதி தேர்தலில் நான் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தால் அடிமைமுறையை ஒழிப்பேன் என்று சொல்லி ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தவர் தற்போதைய ஜனாதிபதி சிதி ஓல்ட் ஷேக் அப்துல்லாஹி.

மௌரிட்டானியாவில் அரபிய எஜமானர்களுக்கு கறுப்பின ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களும், கறுப்பு அரபு கலப்பினத்தவரும் அடிமைகளாக இருக்கிறார்கள்.

தான் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்ததும் மௌரிட்டானியா இஸ்லாமிய குடியரசில் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான ஆண்டுகளாக கறுப்பர்கள் அடிமைகளாக அரபுகளுக்கு வேலை செய்துவருவதை தடுத்து அந்த அடிமைமுறையை நிரந்தரமாக ஆறுமாதத்தில் நீக்கிவிடுவேன் என்று கூறியிருந்தார்.

அவர் நியமித்த பிரதமர் ஜெய்ன் ஓல்ட் ஜெய்டேன் கொண்டுவந்த சட்டதிருத்தங்கள் போதுமானதல்ல. இதனால், அடிமைமுறை நீங்காது என்று அரசாங்கம் சாராத அமைப்புகள் குறைகூறியுள்ளன.

ஏற்கெனவே மௌரிட்டானியாவில் இருக்கும் ஜாதிமுறைகளும், கறுப்பினத்தவர் அடிமைகளாகத்தான் இருக்கவேண்டும் என்ற பொது நினைப்பும் இந்த சட்டங்களை நிறைவேற்றமுடியாமல் தடுக்கின்றன.

Bill to eradicate slavery 'inadequate' - NGO

July 09 2007 at 02:00AM

Nouakchott - A law proposed by the Mauritanian government that would make slavery punishable by up to 10 years behind bars is "inadequate", a leading anti-slavery group said on Sunday.

"We are satisfied with... the will of the current authorities to abolish slavery but we think the proposed text is inadequate," said Boubacar Messaoud, the head of the non-governmental organisation SOS Slavery.

"The law proposal does not give a very clear definition of slavery as it is practiced here," he said, adding that it also recommends penalties that "fall short of those for similar crimes, such as in cases of crimes against humanity".

SOS Slavery has, in co-operation with other human rights groups, suggested amending the current bill to increase the maximum penalty for slavery from the proposed 10 years to 30 years in prison.

The groups have also called on the government to, in parallel with the new law, launch "a true policy for eradicating slavery", as well as a national agency aimed at fighting the practice.

Messaoud said he planned to present these proposals to parliament "very soon".

Slavery has existed in Mauritania for centuries, and slaves, traditionally domestic, are drawn both from the black African and Arab populations.

The west African country officially did away with the practice in 1981, but it persists amid entrenched opinions and caste systems, unenthusiastic about change.

Legislation passed in 2003 strengthened the ban by making "trafficking in people" illegal. "Trafficking" was reclassified as a crime from being a simple misdemeanour.

The 2003 law said the agreement of the slave did not make the practice admissible but fudged the word "slavery".

Mauritanian Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane presented the new law proposal on June 25, saying the 1981 law "did not explicitly qualify the phenomenon, nor its incrimination or repression".

Mauritania's new President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, elected in March, had pledged to "permanently" eradicate slavery within six months. - Sapa-AFP

குழந்தைகள் அடிமைகளாய் வாழ்வதை தடுப்போம்

பாகிஸ்தான், அமீரகம், சூடான், டார்பர், மௌரிட்டானியா ஆகிய நாடுகளில் இன்னமும் பரவலாக இருக்கும் அடிமை முறையின் கீழ் கோடிக்கணக்கான மக்கள் துயருருகிறார்கள்.

இதில் ஏராளமானவர்கள் குழந்தைகளே.

அமீரகத்தில் ஒட்டக ஓட்டிகளாகவும், பாகிஸ்தானில் கொத்தடிமைகளாகவும், மௌரிட்டானியாவில் நிரந்தர அடிமைகளாகவும் சூடானில் சுதந்திர மனிதர்கள் புதிதாக பிடிக்கப்பட்டு அடிமைகளாக்கப்படுவதாலும், கோடிக்கணக்கான மக்கள் அடிமைகளாக வாழ்கிறார்கள்.

பெரும்பாலானவை இஸ்லாமிய நாடுகள் என்பது ஆச்சரியமானதும் வருத்தத்துக்குரியதுமாகும்.

பிபிஸி

Monday, 27 May, 2002, 11:26 GMT 12:26 UK
Millions 'forced into slavery'


Children are victims of slave traffickers

The number of people forced into slavery around the world has risen to 27 million, according to a report published by an international human rights group.
The study - released to coincide with a special UN session on slavery - says millions of girls working as domestic servants are forced into sexual slavery.

The trafficking of child camel jockeys to the United Arab Emirates, bonded labour in Pakistan and forced labour in Sudan are also highlighted.

Slavery is fuelled by "poverty, vulnerability and lack of political will", Anti-Slavery International says.

Forced labour

Last week, the US endorsed a report drawn up by an international group of "eminent persons" which concluded that slavery existed in Sudan.

Slavery
Sudan: Between 5,000 and 14,000 abducted since 1983
Millions of girls forced into domestic service worldwide
Hundreds of boys trafficked to the Gulf to race camels
(Source: Anti-Slavery International)

The report recommended that the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, take the lead by launching an anti-slavery campaign and calling for the release of all slaves.

The Sudanese Government comes in for criticism from Anti-Slavery International, which accuses it of "failing to take adequate steps to end raiding and slavery".

Between 5,000 and 14,000 people are said by the group to have been abducted into forced labour in Sudan since 1983.

There are also problems of forced labour in Mauritania where, the London-based rights group says, little has been done to secure the release of slaves or punish those who use them despite the abolition of slavery in 1981.

In Brazil, the report says, more than 1,000 people were rescued from forced labour last year, but many more remain enslaved on Amazonian estates.

The report says that in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh province, many women, children and men are forced to accept landlords' cash advances and work all day long for no wages.

Sex work

Many of those who are forcibly employed across the world are children.

Anti-slavery activists say millions of girls working as domestic servants are denied freedom and education and are vulnerable to abuse. Many are forced into sex work.

Boys are also victims. The report estimates that every year hundreds of boys, aged between four and 10, are trafficked from South Asia to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states to race camels, a dangerous sport.

அடிமை முறை இறந்த காலம் அல்ல

அடிமை முறை இறந்த காலம் அல்ல.

சூடானில் இப்போதும் நடக்கும் அடிமை வியாபாரம்

சூடானில் இப்போது நடந்துகொண்டிருக்கும் அடிமை வியாபாரம் பற்றிய யூட்பூப் வீடியோ



அரபு முதலாளிகள் ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களை வாங்கி விற்கிறார்கள்.

இதனை நிறுத்த குரல் கொடுப்போம்

அராபிய அடிமை வியாபாரிகள்

நமக்கு அடிமை வியாபாரம் என்றதும் ஐரோப்பிய கிறிஸ்துவர்கள் ஆப்பிரிக்காவில் இருந்த மக்களை அடிமைகளாக வியாபாரம் செய்து அவர்களை நாசகார கப்பல்களில் அடைத்து அமெரிக்காவுக்கு கொண்டு சென்று அங்கு பருத்தி தோட்டங்களில் ஈடுபடுத்தி கொடுமை செய்ததுதான் ஞாபகத்துக்கு வரும்.

ஆனால், இதற்கு முன்பு வரை அடிமை வியாபாரத்தில் மிக முக்கிய பாத்திரம் வகித்தது அராபியர்களே. ஏழாம் நூற்றாண்டின் இறுதியில் தோன்றிய இஸ்லாமிய பேரரசுகளுக்கு ஆள்கள் தேவை காரணமாக ஆப்பிரிக்கா அராபியர்களுக்கு அடிமை அறுவடை நிலமாக ஆயிற்று. உதாரணமாக அராபியர்களின் அடிமை வியாபாரத்தில் அடிமைப்பட்டுக்கிடந்த ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 25 மில்லியன் என்று கணக்கிடப்படுகிறது. இதனை ஒப்பிடும்போது அமெரிக்காவில் அடிமையான ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 11 மில்லியன். ஆனால், 25 மில்லியன் என்று கணக்கிடப்பட்டாலும் இவர்கள் எங்கே என்ற கேள்விக்கு பதில் இவர்களுக்கு குடும்பமோ அல்லது சந்ததியினரோ அனுமதிக்கப்படவில்லை என்பதே. அராபியர்களின் கீழ் அடிமைகளாக இருந்தவர்கள் சந்ததியின்றி அடிமைகளாக்வே இருந்து இறந்தார்கள். அமெரிக்காவிலோ ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட அளவு சுதந்திரம் அளிக்கப்பட்டார்கள். இதுவே அமெரிக்காவில் ஆப்பிரிக்கர்கள் இருப்பதற்கும், அராபிய அடிமை வியாபாரத்தின் முடிவில் ஆப்பிரிக்கர்கள் காணாமல் போனதற்கும் காரணம்.

டார்பரில் நடப்பதும் இது போன்ற ஒரு இன அழிப்பு முறையே. அங்கு அராபியர்கள் கருப்பர்களை துரத்துவது மட்டும் அல்ல. அவர்கள் எங்கு சென்றும் வாழக்கூடாது என்று அழிக்கவும் முனைகிறார்கள். இதனை ஒப்பிடும்போது, காஷ்மீரிலிருந்து துரத்தப்பட்ட இந்துக்கள் இந்திய அரசின் உதவியுடன் வாழ்கிறார்கள்.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade